Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it…

“His love is the soil in which all the fruits of the Spirit grow. When our roots abide there, then joy, peace, patience, kindness,…

— J.D. Greear

The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both…

— David Abram

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to…

— Shirley Sherrod

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.”

— David Marusek

We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like…

— George Monbiot

Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending yet more…

— George Monbiot

Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today.…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.”

— Bob

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

— Anonymous

“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million poor Chinese…

— Helen Raleigh

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland